May 14, 2013

Framed origami animals


I amused myself the other day by making some little origami foxes using this diagram by Mark Leonard, and a whale using these traditional instructions. (The website where I found the fox is apparently no longer active or I'd link to it.)


I thought maybe these animals need a place to live, so I made them each a habitat.


You can download and print these backgrounds, then glue your own origami animals onto them if you like. Framed, they'd be cute in a kid's room.

Download the woods.
Download the sea.

Print out the sheets and leave them 8 1/2" x 11" or trim them a bit to 8" x 10", a more common frame size. The animals were made from 6" standard-size origami paper. A full square for the whale and a half sheet for each fox. You could also shrink everything to mini size and make some little cards if you have nimble fingers.

23 comments:

  1. Those are so sweet and adorable! Now I just have to learn how to fold some fantastic paper :-) Thanks for sharing!

    http://thisfineday.com/

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  2. Love them - and certainly would make great cards if my fingers are nimble enough! Practice makes perfect!

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  3. I clicked on whale directions and got a not so nice link. Don't know if anyone else got that.

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  4. The link in my post should take you to the directions page, (where I see an ad for West Elm, the nice furniture company). BUT the directions over there have green text links sprinkled around that are nonsense junk. Ignore the green links. Just click the blue ones or the page numbers at the bottom of the page.

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  5. nice! going to try it! thanks for sharing!

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  6. These are so adorable! I love your blog. Always something awesome!

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  7. Oh! Are all very, very wonderful!

    Mary

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  8. Absolutely cute Idea. I love it. :-)

    Greets, Katja

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  9. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out this fox fold! Is there any way you would do a video, or step by step fold for us?! I just love the fox!

    Thanks!

    Amanda
    www.merryandmarried.com

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  10. Amanda, I know! I struggled there in the middle with flipping the tail to the other side, if I remember right. I have an idea: I'll ask Leyla Torres of Origami Spirit if she'll make a video. She does them all the time!

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  11. Oh wonderful! You've posted about some holiday origami in the past... it would be cute to do holiday frames that you could switch out.

    I love the whale one! Perfect background.

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  12. Jumping for joy over these wonderful backgrounds. Teaching my grandkids origami. Thank you!

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  13. Could you please make a tutorial how to fold the fox? It's so cute but i really cannot understand the tutorial given... :(

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  14. Working on it! I need to track down the designer of this origami for permission.

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  15. so cute! it inspired me to make my own version :) pics here http://abimakes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/origami-foxes-and-machine-embroidery.html

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  16. Abi, great idea to embroider a backdrop for them!

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  17. I so want to make one of the Foxes but for the life in me I can't follow those instructions. I think I've followed it right to point 8 and then, as if by magic, it seems the tail is the other way around.

    If anybody can produce a clearer guideline or video it would be much appreciated.

    I've looked at other methods of folding foxes but none look quite as simple and beautiful as these ones.

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